Re:Shopify Files Lawsuit over Illegal DMCA Takedown Abuse
by bashinator on Monday October 23, 2023 @02:01PM
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I'm just curious; should I be able to profit from selling high-quality prints of a living artist's paintings that I surreptitiously photographed in a gallery?
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Re:Shopify Files Lawsuit over Illegal DMCA Takedown Abuse
by bluGill on Monday October 23, 2023 @03:31PM
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We can debate the exact length copyright should be (I favor 25 years), but that is the real question. If the copyright is expired, then you can, if not you cannot. I don't care if the artist is living or dead. A dead artist may have heirs (kids, wife...) that they expected to still be supporting except they happened to die.
Re:Shopify Files Lawsuit over Illegal DMCA Takedown Abuse
by thomastjeffery on Monday October 23, 2023 @07:03PM
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Yes. Your prints are inherently valuable, as is their distribution.
To be clear, you should not be able to profit from claiming original authorship of those works: that would be fraud.